Hindman v. First Nat. Bank of Louisville
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. This was an action by Thomas O. Hindman to recover damages for the fraudulent and false representations of the defendants, whereby he was induced to buy shares of the capital stock of the Columbian Fire Insurance Company of America, which shares have proven worthless. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and the plaintiff’s petition dismissed.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. This was an action by Thomas O. Hindman to recover damages for the fraudulent and false representations of the defendants, whereby he was induced to buy shares of the capital stock of the Columbian Fire Insurance Company of America, which shares have proven worthless. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and the plaintiff’s petition dismissed. At a former term of this court we held that the court below had erred in sustaining the demurrer, and the cause was remanded, with directions to overrule same. 39 C.…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
The plaintiff in error has presented no less than 182 assignments of error, an unnecessarily prodigious number. No less than 41 of these are errors assigned upon the charge of the court. These are all based upon 8 exceptions taken to the charge. Objection is made that these exceptions are too general; that each is an exception covering several distinct propositions; and that, if any proposition be good, the whole exception must fail. Johnson v. Garber, 19 C. C. A. 556, 73 Fed. 523. An exception to a charge should be taken before the jury retire. It should be sufficiently definite to call the…
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